You may not be able to tell, but there is a mound of (Waiola!) shaved ice under these red beans, and it is all delicious.
🍿 Casino Royale (2006) is one of the better Bond movies but has a little too much fun shooting on location and ultimately, at 144 minute run-time, overstays its welcome. Still, not having every scene be obviously green screened was refreshing. It’s strange to think that Daniel Craig may become our kids' idea of 007 but hey, it could be worse.
Behold, the Maryland state flag — one of the best in the Union — and state flower on top of the Maryland state desert, the Smith Island (birthday) cake. Best of all, this was a birthday we celebrated while on Smith Island.
The iguana on the right was in a bad mood: moments later it slapped the other one with its tail. So much for hanging out.
On a Caribbean island, even the view from an outhouse is approaching transcendence. Especially the view from an outhouse.
Analogy of the Week Award goes to Eric Levitz of Vox:
In our conversation, Przybylski said he doubted that using social media shortens people’s attention spans. To me, this is a bit like doubting that chewing broken glass causes oral discomfort. And I imagine most of my fellow heavy X users would agree.
Though not as big of an X user as I used to be, I, too, agree.
Who is the flaneur here?
A small drop on a large leaf, as seen at the family favorite, Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens.
The Las Vegas travel guide for families: come for the chocolates, stay for the surrounding cactus garden.
As an aside, is there anything more American than being so bored in retirement that you start a new business which 20 years later gets sold back to your old company?
This page from Carl Sagan’s The Demon-Haunted World was common sense when it first came out almost 30 years ago. Today it reads like a revolutionary screed.
